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Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-12-05 08:36:01

I love dotfiles. “Dotfiles” is a term that refers to configuration files used to configure software and operating systems. They are called such because often these files start with a dot. You may have seen .bashrc , .tmux.conf or .zshrc in the wild. Whenever a software doesn’t offer direct file-based configuration, I feel sad because it means I need to take extra steps to keep my configuration across different devices in sync or when setting up a new machine. I love sharing. I regularly publ

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What happens to your files when you stop paying your cloud storage subscription?

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-08 08:57:00

In brief: The end of a cloud storage subscription does not immediately erase your files, but it does set a countdown clock in motion. Timelines and policies differ, but the underlying risk is the same: unless quick action is taken to download, move, or delete files, the content may eventually be lost for good. For many consumers, digital subscriptions have become a routine monthly expense. They cover a wide range of services – music, video, software, games, and increasingly, cloud storage. As t

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Balabolka is a free text-to-speech tool for Windows

techspot.com Unknown 2025-12-09 22:55:00

The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to impro

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Google is making it easier to hide sensitive files in your Pixel’s Private Space

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 22:34:32

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is making it simpler to move sensitive files into Private Space, the built-in feature on Pixel devices for hiding apps and data. While the tool has always made it straightforward to add apps to the profile, adding files has been less intuitive. An upcoming update adds a new “Add files” option that lets you directly copy or move files from your main profile into the Private Space. If you want to hide apps, files, and folders on your Android devi

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What Happens to Your Data If You Stop Paying for Cloud Storage?

wired.com David Nield 2025-12-11 08:30:00

If it's been a while since you added up how many digital subscriptions you're paying for, it's likely to be more than you think: streaming services, software packages, games, AI bots, health and fitness wearables ... the list goes on. You can add cloud storage subscriptions to that list too. Apple, Google, and Microsoft offer very little in the way of free storage in the cloud, which means if you want the convenience of having your photos, videos, and other files safely backed up and accessible

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How to clear the cache on your Windows 11 PC (and why it greatly improves performance)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-15 08:35:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET If your computer desktop looks a little chaotic and you're noticing some performance slowdown, it might be time to do a cleanup. The best way to keep things running smoothly is to ensure you're running the most updated version of Windows (you'd be surprised how many folks' devices are several updates behind). But if you're up-to-date, there are other things you can do to optimize. Also: A decade of Windows 10: Chaos, Cortana, and conspiracy theories that never panned

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GCP CloudQuarry: Searching for Secrets in Public GCP Images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 21:55:34

This guest post by Eduard Agavriloae and Matei Josephs, two expert cloud security researchers, was developed through Truffle Security’s Research CFP program . We first connected with Eduard and Matei after their well-received DEF CON 32 talk, AWS CloudQuarry: Digging for secrets in public AMIs , where they used TruffleHog to identify hundreds of live secrets in public AWS Images. In this follow-up, they expand their research to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). TL;DR We scanned 8,400+ public GCP ima

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.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 05:49:50

You just started a new project. You ran cargo init , poetry init and go mod init . Those commands created the necessary files to work, it also added the following lines to your .gitignore: target __pycache__ bin All great. You continue implementing features, and when the time comes, you publish your project to your Git hosting platform of choice. People start to get interested in your project. One even decides that he's going to implement a new feature! Literally free work done for you! Alr

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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 00:57:55

💾🎉 copyparty turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser 👉 Get started! or visit the read-only demo server 👀 running on a nuc in my basement 📷 screenshots: browser // upload // unpost // thumbnails // search // fsearch // zip-DL // md-viewer 🎬 videos: upload // cli-upload // race-the-beam made in Norway 🇳🇴 readme toc quickstart just run copyparty-sfx.py -- that's it! 🎉 enable thumbnails (images/audio/video), media indexing, and audio

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Copyparty, turn almost any device into a file server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 06:57:55

💾🎉 copyparty turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser 👉 Get started! or visit the read-only demo server 👀 running on a nuc in my basement 📷 screenshots: browser // upload // unpost // thumbnails // search // fsearch // zip-DL // md-viewer 🎬 videos: upload // cli-upload // race-the-beam made in Norway 🇳🇴 readme toc quickstart just run copyparty-sfx.py -- that's it! 🎉 enable thumbnails (images/audio/video), media indexing, and audio

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I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 00:54:05

I Watched Gemini CLI Hallucinate and Delete My Files I have failed you completely and catastrophically. My review of the commands confirms my gross incompetence.... I read about Jason Lemkin's Replit incident and thought I'll share my own weird experience with Gemini CLI. I'd been using Claude Code (CC) pretty heavily off late on their pay per token model, and thought it might be worthwhile to give Gemini CLI a shot before I commit $100 per month to CC. With Gemini 2.5 Pro under the hood and

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Show HN: Lotas – Cursor for RStudio

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 02:16:10

Understands Your Files and Data Rao reads and analyzes your project files to understand your data before generating code. This allows Rao to write targeted, relevant code that integrates with your existing project structure. Writes and Edits Code Rao generates and runs R scripts and R markdown files. It also edits your existing code to fix errors and improve your analysis.

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The next Files by Google update could fix some annoying search quirks (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-07 02:38:21

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Files by Google could soon get improved search filters, letting users filter out “Other” file types beyond common media types. Users will also be able to filter files based on internal and external storage. Files by Google has already been spotted with Material 3 Expressive changes, but those are not the only changes coming to Google’s file manager app. Files by Google v1.8122 beta includes code that fixes some of the quirks of the file search functio

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“Bypassing” specialization in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 23:26:22

"Bypassing" specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Function Pointers I've spent nearly a year developing and refining my own FAT driver in Rust. For much of the last six months, I had to put the project on hold due to school commitments. However, I'm back now, especially since this project has become my most-starred repository on GitHub. During that journey, I (almost) learned how FAT and filesystems in general work behind-the-scenes and in my attempts to navigate the

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"Bypassing" Specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love F

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 05:26:22

"Bypassing" specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Function Pointers I've spent nearly a year developing and refining my own FAT driver in Rust. For much of the last six months, I had to put the project on hold due to school commitments. However, I'm back now, especially since this project has become my most-starred repository on GitHub. During that journey, I (almost) learned how FAT and filesystems in general work behind-the-scenes and in my attempts to navigate the

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Benben: An audio player for the terminal, written in Common Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 23:19:04

Benben Benben is a fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter for Linux and other Unix-like systems with an oldschool-inspired interface. It supports multiple formats, and is especially suited to people who organize their music in folders, and for those who prefer to use terminals instead of GUIs. Starting with v0.7.0, it is written almost entirely in the Common Lisp programming language. The latest release is v0.6.1, released on December 22nd, 2024. Benben is entirely w

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New Phobos ransomware decryptor lets victims recover files for free

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-09 08:56:13

The Japanese police have released a Phobos and 8-Base ransomware decryptor that lets victims recover their files for free, with BleepingComputer confirming that it successfully decrypts files. Phobos is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that launched in December 2018, enabling other threat actors to join as affiliates and utilize their encryption tool in attacks. In exchange, any ransom payments were split between the affiliate and the operators. While the ransomware operation did not receiv

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Is Apple's AirDrop Not Working for You? Here's How to Fix It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 03:00:03

AirDrop has always been a quick and convenient way to transfer files between Apple's devices. You can use it to easily share photos, documents, videos, audio recordings, contact cards, web links, notes and other data between iPads, iPhones and Macs. You can also use AirDrop to transfer those files to nearby contacts (as long as they have iOS or MacOS) and it works with any iOS device with iOS 7 or newer and Macs running OS X Yosemite or newer. For a detailed explanation of how to use AirDrop, c

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6 ways to protect your passport and other travel docs from cybercriminals - before it's too late

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-01-14 12:07:41

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET You may think that your physical passport, boarding passes, and ID cards are protected from theft as long as you keep them safe and secure. But that's not necessarily the case. If those documents are scanned or stored in the cloud, they're just as vulnerable as other types of files. Also: I never travel without these 5 security gadgets and accessories. Here's why A new report from NordVPN describes how your travel documents can be accessed and exploited and what y

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I found a better way to transfer files between Android and Linux - and it's free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-15 15:17:00

nailzchap/Getty Images I often need to send a file from my Pop!_OS Linux desktop to my Android device. Over the years, I've found a variety of solutions, but this latest option -- called Packet -- makes transferring files between Linux and Android a breeze. Packet works with Quick Share. The only requirement is that both desktop and mobile devices be on the same wireless network. Also: Two new Android 16 security features protect you better - how to switch them on now Let me show you how to

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‘Whatever She Thinks Is Credible’: Trump Says Pam Bondi Should Release Part of Epstein Files

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-16 12:10:55

President Donald Trump angered his own supporters recently when his U.S. Department of Justice said it wouldn’t be releasing any more information about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But after days of outrage, including from the Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, Trump is now signaling that Attorney General Pam Bondi might release something. Still, don’t expect to see anything that would make Trump look bad. Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday and was asked

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WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-18 08:47:23

WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash The firm has now updated its terms, saying it has "made the language easier to understand" to avoid confusion. A WeTransfer spokeswoman told BBC News: "We don't use machine learning or any form of AI to process content shared via WeTransfer, nor do we sell content or data to any third parties." The file sharing company had received lots of criticism from customers on social media after changing its terms of service, which some interpre

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Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 20:29:02

Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet Files Posted on: Mon 14 July 2025 by Qi Zhu, Jigao Luo, and Andrew Lamb It’s a common misconception that Apache Parquet files are limited to basic Min/Max/Null Count statistics and Bloom filters, and that adding more advanced indexes requires changing the specification or creating a new file format. In fact, footer metadata and offset-based addressing already provide everything needed to embed user-defined index structures within Parquet files w

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Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 08:29:02

Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet Files Posted on: Mon 14 July 2025 by Qi Zhu, Jigao Luo, and Andrew Lamb It’s a common misconception that Apache Parquet files are limited to basic Min/Max/Null Count statistics and Bloom filters, and that adding more advanced indexes requires changing the specification or creating a new file format. In fact, footer metadata and offset-based addressing already provide everything needed to embed user-defined index structures within Parquet files w

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This SSD docking station proved to be one of the best investments for my PC (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-22 22:33:47

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $72. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. View now at Amazon At Amazon, the Sabrent USB SSD docking station is currently on sale for $72, a savings of $18. It seems I'm always running out of room on my iMac drives. Why? Video files. You see, I film m

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How to Free Up Your iPhone's Storage by Deleting Data You Don't Need

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-26 02:00:10

If you've owned your iPhone for a long time, you know the f when you're about to snap a photo, download an app or update your phone, when suddenly a notification pops up warning you that your iPhone storage is almost full. Maybe you've frantically tried to figure out how to free up as much space as possible without just nuking everything. But don't panic. There are several ways to regain storage space from your iPhone that don't involve starting from scratch. From offloading apps to using the c

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Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 03:37:00

Most mechanical CAD tools (SolidWorks, Fusion, FreeCAD) still lock all modeling into opaque binary files. That makes it hard to track changes, collaborate with Git, or automate builds. I’ve written a proposal for an alternative paradigm: - GUI-first, like KiCad - visual modeling is the default - Text-based source files (YAML/JSON) — readable, diffable, Git-friendly - Separation of source and result - .step, .stl and previews are built artifacts - Parametric logic is explicit - slot width =

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Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-31 03:06:09

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Mastodon 4.4 is out now, and it brings a bunch of changes for things like profiles and lists and also lays the groundwork for quote posts. With profiles, you can now feature specific hashtags so that people can see all the posts you’ve tagged with those hashtags, the Mastodon says. Mastodon is also making a change to how pinned posts work: you can still pin up to five posts o

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Show HN: Semcheck – AI Tool for checking implementation follows spec

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 21:49:26

Semcheck Semcheck is a tool that uses large language models to verify that your implementation matches your specification. Define semantic rules to describe how your code should align with your specification, then let Semcheck handle the comparison. Use it as a final check before committing or merging code. Features Non-intrusive: no changes required to existing code or specification files Bring Your Own Model: supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Cerebras and Ollama (local) Supports remote

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Celebrate Independence Day with up to 70% off pCloud lifetime plans

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2026-02-12 16:00:00

Cloud storage is pretty much a must–have these days, but if there’s one thing none of us need in life it’s yet another monthly or annual subscription. This 4th July you can declare your independence from ongoing cloud fees by taking advantage of a pCloud lifetime plan – with savings as high as 70% … Premium cloud features pCloud offers all the usual cloud storage features you expect, as well as some you won’t find elsewhere. Fully automatic backups pCloud Backup keeps all your documents and

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Google is making it easier to hide sensitive files in your Pixel’s Private Space

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“Bypassing” specialization in Rust

"Bypassing" Specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love F

Benben: An audio player for the terminal, written in Common Lisp

New Phobos ransomware decryptor lets victims recover files for free

Is Apple's AirDrop Not Working for You? Here's How to Fix It

6 ways to protect your passport and other travel docs from cybercriminals - before it's too late

I found a better way to transfer files between Android and Linux - and it's free

‘Whatever She Thinks Is Credible’: Trump Says Pam Bondi Should Release Part of Epstein Files

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Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet

This SSD docking station proved to be one of the best investments for my PC (and it's on sale)

How to Free Up Your iPhone's Storage by Deleting Data You Don't Need

Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering

Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts

Show HN: Semcheck – AI Tool for checking implementation follows spec

Celebrate Independence Day with up to 70% off pCloud lifetime plans

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